The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf, the chace, and every other diversion interesting to the man of pleasure and enterprize |
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... pack of hounds . The last - mentioned fact was pretty sure to be elicited amongst the youngsters the first day after mess , their favourite occupation being foxhunting , and , when deprived of that amusement , talking about it . He was ...
... pack of hounds . The last - mentioned fact was pretty sure to be elicited amongst the youngsters the first day after mess , their favourite occupation being foxhunting , and , when deprived of that amusement , talking about it . He was ...
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... pack of vultures , who would not even look at the royal carriage : — “ I lay agin Chaffbox . " Do it in ' underds ? " 66 Any gent lay agin Heagle for the Stakes ? " " What's the hodds " - Neph . - Just so , sir ; what are the odds , as ...
... pack of vultures , who would not even look at the royal carriage : — “ I lay agin Chaffbox . " Do it in ' underds ? " 66 Any gent lay agin Heagle for the Stakes ? " " What's the hodds " - Neph . - Just so , sir ; what are the odds , as ...
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... pack in use with his late Majesty George the Third . These hounds were of great size ; their tone deep , like that of their ancestors , the bloodhound ; and their speed far greater than might have been supposed ; but , like the game ...
... pack in use with his late Majesty George the Third . These hounds were of great size ; their tone deep , like that of their ancestors , the bloodhound ; and their speed far greater than might have been supposed ; but , like the game ...
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... pack might not be kept up as with us , if in a climate similar to ours , I am not prepared to say ; but hounds taken from here degenerating so much and so shortly seems to more than indicate they were not in point of ancestry originally ...
... pack might not be kept up as with us , if in a climate similar to ours , I am not prepared to say ; but hounds taken from here degenerating so much and so shortly seems to more than indicate they were not in point of ancestry originally ...
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... packs of the United Kingdom throughout , I think I may set down as twenty - three inches dogs ; twenty - one ... pack of hounds that hunt hare . It is true , they are all hare - hunting dogs ; but by no means all harriers or all ...
... packs of the United Kingdom throughout , I think I may set down as twenty - three inches dogs ; twenty - one ... pack of hounds that hunt hare . It is true , they are all hare - hunting dogs ; but by no means all harriers or all ...
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf ... Visualização completa - 1840 |
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20 added 25 added 30 added 50 added 50 sovs Aldcroft Ashmall bad third Basham Bay Middleton Bearpark Birdcatcher birds canter Capt Chanticleer Charlton chase Cliff Cotherstone course Derby distance Epirus Exeter's extra fillies fillies 8st Flatman Fordham Gaylad gentleman Greville's half a length head heats horse Hospodar hounds hunting incl J. M. Stanley's Jack Sheppard Kendall Knight of St Lady Leger Lord Marson Meteora mile Miss morning Morris's neck never Newmarket once round Osborne's owner pack paid 5 sovs Parr's PLATE of 50 race Rataplan riding saved his stake Saxon's season second and third second recd second saved Sir Tatton Sykes sport sportsman Steggles SWEEPSTAKES Team Valley three lengths three quarters three years old Waddington winner paid winner was sold Won by half Won by three Won easily
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Página 383 - COL. HAWKER'S INSTRUCTIONS to YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Página 435 - I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old. Back and side go bare, go bare ; Both foot and hand go cold ; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old.
Página 77 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might ? thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were: First in the race that led to Glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away — is this the whole?
Página 456 - Their pointed bristles stare, or 'mong the tufts Of ranker weeds, each stomach-healing plant Curious they crop, sick, spiritless, forlorn. These inauspicious days, on other cares Employ thy precious hours; the improving friend With open arms embrace, and from his lips Glean science, seasoned with good-natured wit.
Página 29 - ... and a belt of variegated worsted, from which are suspended the knife, tobacco-pouch, and other implements. Their language is of the same piebald character, being a French patois, embroidered with Indian and English words and phrases.
Página 234 - ... if he has to make play, or he will run the slower, and jade the sooner for the want of it. " The phrase at Newmarket is, that you should pull your horse to ease him in his running. When horses are in their great distress in running, they cannot bear that visible manner of pulling as looked for by many of the sportsmen ; he should be enticed to ease himself an inch a time, as his situation will allow.
Página 207 - And past those settlers' haunts the eye might roam Where earth's unliving silence all would seem ; Save where on rocks the beaver built his dome, Or buffalo remote low'd far from human home. But silent not that adverse eastern path,. Which saw Aurora's hills th...
Página 44 - Won by half a length, a head between the second and third. The winner was bought in for 105gs.
Página 96 - Mar£chal de Montrevel whose renown became so unhappily celebrated during the persecutions which followed the revocation of the edict of Nantes. He was the intimate friend of Baville, but less of a cringing courtier, although quite as ardent and inflexible as the Intendent of Languedoc had proved himself, and who left to his heirs, together with an immense fortune, a memory execrated by the descendants of those families who have suffered from his cruelties. At an early age the Marquis de Montrevel...
Página 160 - The Minstr.el tried his simple art, But distant far was Ellen's heart. XII. ALICE BRAND. Merry it is in the good green wood, When the mavis * and merle t are singing, When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing.